Getting Started Is Easy!
Getting Started Is Easy!
Getting Started Is Easy!
OUR SPECIALIZATIONS
Our team of therapists rely on thorough, individualized assessments to guide child specific, thoughtful therapeutic interventions and critical analysis of therapeutic tools.
As a team we are specially trained in:
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Autism
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Executive Functioning
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Attention & Focus
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Therapeutic Listening/Listening Program
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Sensory Processing Assessment and Intervention (SIPT)
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Floortime
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Feeding (Sensory and Motor Based Interventions)
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Motor Learning Approaches/Praxis
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Handwriting and Keyboarding (Handwriting/Typing Without Tears)
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Rapid Prompting Method
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Integration of low and high tech ACC
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Therapeutic Yoga
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Infant Massage
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Developmental Discoordination
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Fine Motor Delays
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Visual, Vestibular, and Auditory Treatment
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NDT/ Neurodevelopmental Treatment
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Interactive Metronome
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TEACCH
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Zones of Regulation & Social Learning
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COVID-19 Procedures
Parents/Guardian’s must sign a waiver prior to each session that agrees to self-report COVID-19 symptoms and exposure, as well as any positive test results of COVID-19 for anyone in the household.
All Parents will be asked the following questions. If the answer is yes to any of these questions, your child cannot be seen and will be offered telehealth services.
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Have you or anyone in your household had any of the following symptoms during the past 14 days - runny nose, sore throat, cough, fever, loss of smell and/or taste, shortness of breath?
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Have you or anyone in your household been exposed to COVID-19?
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Have you used public transportation (including plane, bus, or train) in the last 14 days?
The Parent/Guardian will check the child’s temperature prior to each session and share these results with the service provider. Any child with a temperature of 99.9 or higher will be offered telehealth in lieu of in person.
The child and service provider must wash their hands for 20 seconds at the start and end of each session.
The service provider must wear a mask at all times. Children over 2 years of age will be encouraged but not mandated to wear a mask. Child masks will be provided by the family.
If anyone in the household demonstrates signs of illness, the session will be ended.
All equipment and toys brought into the home will be sanitized prior to entry and when removed from the home.
Thank you for helping to keep everyone safe!
THE WIND RULE
One method to teach number orientation is the “Wind Rule”.
→→Draw a cloud in the upper left corner, where you write your name. Then point it’s mouth so it blows wind across the page. ←←
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Consider how a wind surfer catches wind to move, or how a kite flies with the lift of the wind. In both cases the long line of the sail is pushed far away as it is filled with wind. Numbers with a long line, “1,4,7, &9” follow a similar pattern with their long lines pushed far to the right by the “Wind Rule”.
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Consider if a wind cloud could chew and blow a bubble gum bubble. The bubble would blow towards the right, filling with air from the wind cloud. Numbers “2, 3, & 5” follow this pattern, with the bubbles all blown out towards the far right, filling with air.
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Number “6” does not follow a rule. It is a “C” that got fancy and did a flip at the last moment. Similarly, the number “8” is unaffected by the wind.
HANDWRITING RULES
These evolved out of the realization that "good" handwriting is too vague of an expectation... it needed to be much much more concrete to both the student and the teacher.
We stick with these 6 rules, or add additional rules (ex. adding capitalization, punctuation, etc.) depending on the audience. And typically I prefer to both teach these across OT sessions and to share them with K & 1 teachers. Some teachers choose to embed these rules into their own curriculum, teaching kids to ID broken rules in a teacher's writing sample, focusing on 1-2 rules per week.
THE EDPUZZLE
Edpuzzle has proven to be incredibly helpful with recent distance learning models for therapy. We have edited popular video shorts to create interactive videos on self regulation, perspective taking, and general topics of client interest.
This medium has been highly effective over teletherapy and enables many natural reflective conversations about self regulation, visual attention, as well as real time typing practice.
INTRODUCING AUTISM TO A CLASSROOM
There are many incredible videos simulating sensory sensitivity, motor impairment, and otherwise to help peers better understand Autism. This is one favorite. Others of similar value can be found in the portal
HANDWRITING INSTRUCTION
When working together for the past decade, we have realized that we pull from many curriculums and resources to teach handwriting. But our approach has some personal spins and we are happy to share.
Here is one video clip of how we teach the "c" starter letters. Similar videos for "trampoline" letters and "diver" letters are also available.